Curated list of external resources

Learning ROS

  1. Good udemy course to get started: https://www.udemy.com/course/ros-for-beginners/
  2. ROS in 5 days playlist on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlfT8GUcCk&list=PLTMwfiy4PNc38yWkoT0QXCm8L34m0OxTA
  3. Building a simulated model for Gazebo, YT videos, blogposts and github repo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckSl4MbZLg, http://moorerobots.com/blog/post/1, https://github.com/richardw05/mybot_ws.git
  4. Courses on: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ This is a paid platform. Courses are delivered in a form of notebooks to execute in the interactive shell. Recorded videos could be better, but still it’s the best place when it comes to the coverage of topics and good practices.

Ackermann geometry

  1. Working example of using ackermann_steering_controller
  2. Theory (other steering models included): https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/2010/8/WMR_Kinematics.pdf

Automotive-focused

  1. Production package for controlling cars, bitbucket repo: https://bitbucket.org/DataspeedInc/dbw_mkz_ros/src/master/
  2. ROS for automotive, free course: https://www.apex.ai/autoware-course